STEM education – The Conversation

Inspiring our children to value and connect with science is key to improving society – and there are ways to do this safely in the classroom.

Early childhood is an important stage where children develop curiosity, values and problem-solving skills.

Despite their scarcity, science fiction books are highly sought after by elementary school students.

Graphic novels pair text and images to explain complex topics – from thermodynamics to abstract math – without alienating STEM-averse students.

By kindergarten, white and Asian students are three to four times as likely as Black and Hispanic students to display advanced math skills.

Universities have made little progress diversifying STEM fields in recent years.

Year after year, public schools have come up short on STEM teachers. An education policy scholar pushes for a novel solution.

A negative environment dissuades many women engineering students from staying in the field. Can colleges and universities do anything to reverse the trend?

With unprecedented skills shortages looming in Australia, more than ever we need gender equity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Here’s what needs to happen.

Without university-level programs to provide teacher training for advanced computer science, states will not be able to offer high-quality computer science education to all students.

A professor shows science students how humanities classes are the real stem that other disciplines sprout from. They learn that critical thinking and skepticism don’t stop when they leave the lab.

Is it a STEM education or a STEAM education? Integrating arts into science programming and vice versa can pique kids’ curiosity − a play touring Michigan aims to do just that.

The 2022 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes have been awarded for outstanding achievements in scientific research, innovation and teaching.

If we’re going to prime a future-ready Australia, we need more research and development funding, and a diverse, highly skilled workforce. Are this year’s commitments in the right places?

Juneteenth is not an official holiday in Canada, but it is significant for thinking about the history of race, racial relations and education.

Achievement gaps between white, Black and Hispanic students can be substantially explained by one factor: Their family’s socioeconomic status.

Researchers asked engineering students to tell stories about challenges they had faced. Telling the stories, students said, made them more likely to stay in their major.

When children engage with STEM concepts their visual literacy and conceptual understanding of scientific concepts are strengthened.

New research shows how the beach provides many ways to teach young children about biology, chemistry and physics.

‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills claim to use science to justify a binary definition of sex based on certain traits. But the biology of sex and gender is not so simple.